Questions to know:
? What issues troubled Europe after the Cold War?
? How have recent economic and political trends affected the West?
? How has Europe moved toward greater unity?
? How have social trends changed the West?
? How did Britain’s policies change after World War II?
? How did French power and prosperity revive?
? How did Germany reunify?
? What problems have other democratic nations faced?
? What actions has the United States taken as a global superpower?
? What developments have shaped the economy, government, and society of the
United States?
? What issues has Canada faced in recent years?
? What ideas guided Soviet political, economic, and foreign policy?
? Why did the Soviet Union collapse?
? What problems have Russia and the other republics faced since the fall of
the Soviet Union?
? How did Eastern European nations oppose Soviet domination and strive for democracy?
? What were the effects of the fall of communism?
? What were the causes and effects of civil war in Yugoslavia?

Section 1: The Western World - An Overview
Western loans and investments
Ethnic clashes, especially in the Balkan
The nuclear peril
Nuclear Test Ban treaty
Détente
Berlin Wall
NATO

OPEC
oil
Welfare system
Recession
Service industries

In 1952, six nations — France, West Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands,
and Luxembourg — set up the European Coal and Steel Community.

In 1957, the same six nations formed the European Community (EC) or Common
Market
In 1973, Britain, Denmark, and Ireland were admitted to the Common Market.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Common Market expanded and took on the name European
Union (EU
Obstacles to European Union
Nationalism
Past conflicts
Fear that France may dominate Union
Charles de Gaulle anti-US and Britain

Euro

Social Trends
Classes
Ethnic diversity
Women
Family life
Migration to Western Europe

Section 2: The Western European Democracies
Britain: Political Pendulum